A post on SemiAccurate breaks down some information from PC Watch (translation) suggesting that Intel's upcoming Broadwell CPUs will be soldered to the motherboard, rather than socketed, a detail they have now confirmed with a pair of OEMs. They offer the distressed opinion that this will be a death knell to the desktop PC and the enthusiast market, and though they add that they've received information indicating there's a "good chance" that the Sky Lake processors that will follow Broadwell will be socketed for one or two generations to follow, they conclude: "By then the last remaining overclockers and experimenters on the PC front will be gone, and for good technical reasons." Thanks Ant via Slashdot.

I mean things related to rendering (per core performance and how it scales up) but yes, power savings and what that means for where the cpu can be used and how far it can be pushed, because low power use means low heat generation means HIGH clock potential... and of course Tablets.. Tablets! I want a Haswell powered Windows 8 x64 Tablet